Flavorist, Sweet

How You Will Contribute
Key Accountability

• Work independently and within project teams by collaborating with other cross functional teams to develop winning flavors.

• Proactively evaluate new raw materials and assess potential for future use in creating new flavors.

• Collaborate with internal and external customers to provide insightful partnership and leverage trusting relationships.

• Demonstrate creativity and innovation in your everyday work maximize IFF technologies and provide innovative flavor solutions.

• Support, drive and lead the use of new technologies in flavor creations.

• Be a partner of choice to customers, both internal and external, via demonstrating technical expertise and creativity.

• Interface with manufacturing and operations or IFF functions as necessary to ensure a smooth bench to batch development and commercialization process.

Strategy & Business knowledge

• Interaction with key customers to understand requirements & build strong and trusted partnership.

• Strong understanding of global capabilities, effective global & regional network to leverage technical knowledge.

• Define gaps in product portfolio & technologies and takes creative efforts to meet consumer needs.

• Understand regional markets’ taste differences & preferences and create Flavors accordingly.

• Foster cross category collaboration and knowledge sharing to provide technical solutions to internal and external customers.

Presentation Skills

• Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings(internal/external): one -on-one, small and large groups.

• Commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation.

Self-Development

• Is personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve himself/herself.

• Understands that different situations and levels may call for different skills and approaches.

• Deploys strengths to overcome weaknesses.

What you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably a Master’ degree in Food science, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering or any other relevant discipline.

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in the Flavor Industry within a creative function.

• Solid understanding of Flavors Sweet Category and a strong emphasis on Flavor creation and applications, raw materials and chemical processes.

• Possess strong Flavor creation, innovation and development technical know-how in a B2B or B2C environment.

• Strong interest in evaluating new raw materials and assessing potential for future use in creating new flavors.

• Good in building strong customer relations and capable in leading sizeable technical projects.

• Possess flavor creation techniques with strong familiarity in Sweet products market trends.

• Comfortable working in a B2B environment with a positive, self-driven or results oriented attitude.

• Strong teamwork, customer orientation, project management, effective time management skills with proven ability to oversee all assigned projects and meeting deadlines are highly desirable.